Hopelessness and Excessive Drinking among Aboriginal Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Depressive Symptoms and Drinking to Cope

Table 1

Descriptive statistics and bivariate correlations between study measures.

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	Mean (SD)
(1) Hopelessness	—						14.1 (4.0)
(2) Depressive symptoms	.42**	—					7.4 (5.9)
(3) Drinking to cope	.26**	.39**	—				2.1 (0.9)
(4) Drinking quantity	.12**	.02	.25**	—			3.4 (1.4)
(5) Drinking frequency	.14**	.13**	.30**	.49**	—		2.7 (1.1)
(6) Binge frinking	.13**	.10*	.30**	.56**	.73**	—	2.8 (1.0)

Note. Sample sizes vary from 486 to 531 due to missing data on various study measures.*P < .05. **P < .01.